He Hears Music in the Quietest Place on Earth—Can You?

Acoustic ecologist
Gordon Hempton has spent the past 35 years recording natural soundscapes. In lyrical short film
Being Hear, filmmaker
Palmer Morse and Matt Mikkelsen capture Hempton in his element as he shares the importance of preserving the silence. The
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